 | Maurice Lenihan - 1866 - 820 pages
...their hands, for then- legges could not bear them, they looked like the anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea and one another soone after, inasmuch as the very carcases they spared... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - English newspapers - 1867 - 442 pages
...stony heart would have rued the sight. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came forth on their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, and spoke like ghosts crying out of the grave ; they flocked to a plot of water cresses as to a feast,... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...wretchedness, that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them ; yea, they did eat one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses... | |
 | JOHN P. PRENDERGAST, ESQ. - 1868 - 292 pages
...stony heart would have rued the sight. Out of every corner of the woods and giynns they came forth on their hands, for their legs could not bear them, — they looked like anatomies of death, and spoke like ghosts crying out of the grave ; they flocked to a plot of water-cresses as to a feast,... | |
 | John Patrick Prendergast - Ireland - 1868 - 306 pages
...stony heart would have rued the sight. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came forth on their hands, for their legs could not bear them, — they looked like anatomies of death, and spoke like ghosts crying out of the grave ; they flocked to a plot of water-cresses as to a feast,... | |
 | Alexander George Richey - Ireland - 1870 - 508 pages
...wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcases they spared... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - American essays - 1894 - 454 pages
...possession of his estate in Ireland : "Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they (the people) came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...them. They looked like anatomies of death — they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves — they ate the dead carrion, happy when they could find... | |
 | George Bennett - Bandon (Ireland) - 1869 - 600 pages
...every corner of the woodes and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their handes, for their legges could not bear them. They looked like anatomies of...death ; they spoke like ghosts, crying out of their grave ; they did cat the dead carrions, happy when they could find them." verance ; and that South... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald - American essays - 1869 - 338 pages
...stony heart would have rued the sight. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came forth on their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death, and spoke like ghosts coming out of their grave. They nocked to a plot of water-cresses as to a feast,... | |
 | William Stewart Trench - Land tenure - 1871 - 408 pages
...their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them; yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they... | |
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Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves... 
